Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Playground Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. KING, CURTIS J is the busiest examiner, who is currently managing 1 pending action.
The 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct art units, suggesting the communications technology involved may be diverse enough to trigger different departmental reviews. Since there are 2 distinct examiners, each is responsible for 1 action, including the 1 pending action assigned to KING, CURTIS J. This distribution shows that no single examiner is currently overwhelmed by the company's pending communications filings. Practitioners should note that the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by separate individuals in separate units, which may lead to different prosecution timelines. The 1 pending action assigned to KING, CURTIS J represents 1 of the 2 active matters in the Communications sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, CURTIS J | 1 | 68.0% | +29.8% |
| UBALE, GAUTAM | 1 | 54.1% | +49.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899242 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM | UBALE, GAUTAM | 23d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899242 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM | UBALE, GAUTAM | 23d overdue |
| 19013095 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND METHOD | KING, CURTIS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19013095 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND METHOD | KING, CURTIS J | 2685 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18899242 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM | UBALE, GAUTAM | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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